Planning your installation

Planning your installation is the most important thing to do before installing Moodle in a production environment.

There is several things you need to check

* Where are you hosting Moodle? A Service Provider, at home or onsite.

If a hosting provider, what package, try to compaire the provider with other to try and get the best deal. The beset place to start is with a Moodle Partner

If you are hosting it at home you need to check your ISP's terms and conditions to confirm that you are allowed to host websites on your connection.

If hosting on site, you shouldnt have any problems! ;)

* Windows/Linux/Mac?

Windows is not a good idea for a high production site. It is fine is you are just starting but when your Moodle installation really kicks ofF you should seriously consider moving to Linux or Mac.

Linux can be scary for new users but its not that bad! If you are new to Linux, you may want to use XAMPP. XAMPP is a linux application that combines everything you will need to run Moodle. If you dont like XAMPP, you can always use the Apache, MySQL etc software that comes with your distribution. But make sure you havent got two running at the same time!!

Mac is very stable but not a good performance wise as Linux.

--Martin Yelland 16:20, 18 June 2006 (WST)